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08-09-2010, 01:32 PM
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"Ain't"
"Super" as in "I'm "super" excited..." or "Wow, you did a "super" job.... 
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08-09-2010, 03:18 PM
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"Ain't"
"Super" as in "I'm "super" excited..." or "Wow, you did a "super" job.... |
I am "super" guilty of this.
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08-09-2010, 03:29 PM
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"Super" as in "I'm "super" excited..." or "Wow, you did a "super" job.... |
I'll probably get some grief for this, but "amazing," as in "they're all amazing organizations full of amazing women."
Sorry. 
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08-09-2010, 08:44 AM
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"On the real..." heheheh
Awesome
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08-09-2010, 09:25 AM
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Bling.
"Where do you stay?" I LIVE in North Carolina.
Mines. - I have two children that are guilty of this, but they're not the only ones.
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08-09-2010, 10:03 AM
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Mines. - I have two children that are guilty of this, but they're not the only ones.
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"Mines is not too bad when you have little kids saying this...it's when you have GROWN ADULTS that say it, is when it becomes a problem.
How about...
"it is what it is"
and
"You do you"
or
"Are you for real?"
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08-09-2010, 10:11 AM
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My youngest step son says:
"That's tight."
instead of saying,
"that's cool"
I dont like the "tight" thing.
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08-09-2010, 10:41 AM
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"Where do you stay?" I LIVE in North Carolina.
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I took a dialect class in college -- one of the most interesting classes I took -- and we talked about the "stay-live" difference. "Stay" is a dialectical usage, and occurs in a number of dialects (including Scots English  ). I remember our professor saying that, at least as used by some Southern speakers, the usage has African roots and means something slightly different -- I believe it's that "stay" indicates a degree of permanence that "live" does not.
FWIW.
Meanwhile, I can't stand "very unique."
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08-09-2010, 10:51 AM
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I took a dialect class in college -- one of the most interesting classes I took -- and we talked about the "stay-live" difference. "Stay" is a dialectical usage, and occurs in a number of dialects (including Scots English ). I remember our professor saying that, at least as used by some Southern speakers, the usage has African roots and means something slightly different -- I believe it's that "stay" indicates a degree of permance that "live" does not.
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That's very interesting. I grew up on stay, but it didn't mean what you're describing. It was more like "where do you call home" which may or not be your actual place of residence/where you get your mail. For instance, my boyfriend had a room at his parents house but he "lived" with me. He would say "I stay in Athens with my girl" but he didn't mean he was staying there like it was a hotel. He meant he lived there at that time in his life. "Where do you live?" wasn't at all common anywhere.
Now that I've written it down, I realize that a lot of us had roots in several locations. My belongings were scattered among the homes of various family members, but I always had a distinct place in my mind of where I was living at a given time. That's where I "stayed."
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08-09-2010, 10:53 AM
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That's very interesting. I grew up on stay, but it didn't mean what you're describing. It was more like "where do you call home" which may or not be your actual place of residence/where you get your mail. For instance, my boyfriend had a room at his parents house but he "lived" with me. He would say "I stay in Athens with my girl" but he didn't mean he was staying there like it was a hotel. He meant he lived there at that time in his life. "Where do you live?" wasn't at all common anywhere.
Now that I've written it down, I realize that a lot of us had roots in several locations. My belongings were scattered among the homes of various family members, but I always had a distinct place in my mind of where I was living at a given time. That's where I "stayed."
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That's exactly how I've always used it, too.
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08-09-2010, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
That's very interesting. I grew up on stay, but it didn't mean what you're describing. It was more like "where do you call home" which may or not be your actual place of residence/where you get your mail. For instance, my boyfriend had a room at his parents house but he "lived" with me. He would say "I stay in Athens with my girl" but he didn't mean he was staying there like it was a hotel. He meant he lived there at that time in his life.
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Maybe I was remembering it a little backwards or incorrectly. It has been a while.
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08-09-2010, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I took a dialect class in college -- one of the most interesting classes I took -- and we talked about the "stay-live" difference. "Stay" is a dialectical usage, and occurs in a number of dialects (including Scots English ). I remember our professor saying that, at least as used by some Southern speakers, the usage has African roots and means something slightly different -- I believe it's that "stay" indicates a degree of permanence that "live" does not. |
Many people don't know this. Thanks for sharing.
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08-09-2010, 10:02 AM
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"Grown and Sexy"...just say you have an age minimum and a dress code.
"Swag"...you are not a unique snowflake.
"Conversate"...its not even a farkin word!
"It is what it is"...what else would it be?
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08-09-2010, 10:17 AM
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That reminds me, there was a skit on MadTV where they showed how so many words evolved from "cool" and eventually came back to "cool" being the acceptable word to describe something as..."cool"
I could never find this skit.
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08-09-2010, 10:30 AM
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I think I posted this in the thread from last year, but:
"Literally" when used to refer to something that did not literally happen just to add emphasis.
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